CM Punk’s Coach Gives Update On His Second UFC Fight, Says First Beating Is "Motivation"

CM Punk’s UFC entrance in during UFC 203 in Sep 2016 didn’t go accurately has he planned, as he took a biased violence from Mickey Gall en track to losing by first-round submission. But Punk has continued training in hopes of improving, and his conduct manager pronounced he’s some-more encouraged than ever to put on a improved performance.

Punk, who had never fought a Mixed Martial Arts quarrel in his life, was entirely dominated in his debut. Gall, a immature undefeated prospect, took him down seconds into a quarrel and kick him adult for falling in a rear-naked throttle for a win. Duke Roufus, who coaches Punk during Roufusport in Milwaukee, pronounced a detriment has pushed him to sight harder and suggested that his second quarrel is on a horizon.

“(UFC President Dana White) and a matchmakers had their weekly matchmaking assembly yesterday, and we’ll get some news soon,” Roufus pronounced on a UFC Unfiltered podcast. “Just consider a initial time we step in a Octagon, there’s something special you’ve got to understanding with removing in there. For Punk, this sounds unequivocally weird, though now he knows what a violence feels like – a genuine beating.”

At 39 years old, Punk has a tiny window for a successful career in MMA. Now that he knows what a genuine violence feels like, he will many expected be some-more gentle a subsequent time he stairs into a octagon, regardless of his opponent. Roufus pronounced Punk has schooled and grown from his experience.

“I consider (a detriment like Punk’s during UFC 203) will assistance a lot of fighters to a indicate of vivid them, like, ‘No, we don’t wish to feel this approach ever again,'” Roufus said. “It’s not a physical. These guys are tough. It’s a mental anguish. You don’t wish to feel that depressing, annoying feeling of removing kick adult in front of God and everyone. It’s no fun. It’s been good proclivity for him.”

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